Round the world again in 80 days Mon premier voyage

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Round the world again in 80 days = Mon premier voyage

Jean Cocteau ; introduction by Simon Callow ; [translated by Stuart Gilbert]

Tauris Parke, 2000

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Mon premier voyage

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Originally published: London : Routledge, 1937

Translated from the French

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Jean Cocteau traces Phileas Fogg's famous journey, recording the frenetic change of scenes, from Athens and Alexandria to Bombay, Rangoon and Yokohama, and finally across the US. Cocteau's witty and subjective narrative give this travel-memoir a camp and stylish slant.

目次

  • Jules Verne's "Round the World in 80 Days", fiction in 1873 -fact in 1936, the wonderlands of childhood, we set out, and a mistake enables us to visit Rome
  • March 29 - Rome by night, the "Duce" ubiquitous, the freedom of the fountains, a foundering city
  • March 30 - Brindisi
  • March 31 - Athens, the Acropolis, the living marble of the Parthenon
  • April 1 - Rhodes, a melting-pot of races, streets of mystery and old-world ramparts
  • April 2 -Alexandria, the ritual of the bazaar, Baksheesh, the Kombakir, a novel restaurant
  • April 3 - Cleopatra and the carpets - an explanation
  • April 4 - a city of death, Mena house, the desert in a bedroom
  • the sphinx
  • the sphinx's smile
  • the termites
  • the delta, talons webbed with gardens, Cleopatra again, Anubis and his dust-bin
  • the barren flowers
  • Tutankhamen, the mystery theatre, a mummy floats up to the surface of the ages, the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings
  • April 7 - Port Said
  • April 8
  • April 12 - Aden, the Valley of Lepers, the macabre dandies, a leaden sun, Aden - a dagger planted on our path
  • April 15, 16 - trouble with time, the Great Bear turns a somersault, the viceroys
  • April 17
  • Bombay -towers of silence, woman, the beast of burden, three memories -Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the Theban plague, the monkey-boy
  • hell on wheels
  • April 19 - Calcutta, sleeping porters, sleeping cattle, the Hooghli Ghats, the dominance of time
  • April 20
  • Rangoon, pagoda merchants, a forest of gods
  • April 22 - Chinatown, the sleeping sikhs, the last resort of dreams, slow intensity, beauty, an old aquaintance
  • April 26 - Penang, a tribute to the cafes of our second empire, night-magic at Penang, how Chinese alchemists turn dung to gold, a "low" opium-den, mystery in a bar-room
  • "big city"
  • Malacca
  • hidden meanings
  • April 29
  • Singapore, a jungle tamed, a policy of sport, the rightness of spectacular plays
  • death-traps
  • the "new world", theatres and cook-shops
  • the animal market
  • May 1 - our attitude to consuls, methods of work and travel, a last visit to the "new world"
  • May 5 - how a ship changes the aspect of the sea, the perils of Singapore, discrepancy of humans and natural justice, the Englishman's safeguard
  • May 6
  • May 9
  • Hongkong, the dragon, a city of banners, wonders of the "entr'acte"
  • pink comfits
  • Honkong by day
  • May 11 -Charlie Chaplin, fate contrives our meeting, a new language, the street-artist, a cloistered art, Passepartout's luck, Chaplin at work
  • May 12
  • May 15
  • May 16 - Japan, a little girls and a chalk circle, the sea-born isle, happy spring, a high-priest of the theatre, a wrestling-match, the brothels, on board the "President Coolidge"
  • the Kuroyaki
  • microbus
  • May 26 - microbus "sings"
  • May 27 - two Tuesdays in a week
  • postscript to Japan
  • the powers behind the scenes
  • May 29 - Honolulu
  • May 31
  • 'Frisco by night
  • 'Frisco by day
  • a glimpse of Hollywood
  • June 7 - starscapes, the Grand Canyon, Wichita
  • night flight, New York, radio city, dusk over Broadway, the New York dunghill, Harlem
  • the lindy hop, theatres for

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